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23 May 2013

Monsanto Hires Blackwater - 'death-tech firm weds a hit squad'

Documents reveal that Blackwater has
been busy expanding its corporate reach by providing intelligence
services for agencies such as the Canadian Military, Netherlands
Police and corporations like Monsanto.

Blackwater is a private, mercenary
army. They've been called the 'shadow army,' and most notoriously
worked for the United States in Iraq, where the company courted
controversy. Journalist Jeremy Scahill, who wrote a book about
Blackwater, wrote an exclusive for The
Nation, revealing general details of the extent of the Blackwater
business operations. Scahill managed to obtain documents that,
according to Scahill, show "... entities closely linked to the
private security firm Blackwater have provided intelligence, training
and security services to US and foreign governments as well as
several multinational corporations, including Monsanto, Chevron, the
Walt Disney Company, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines and banking giants
Deutsche Bank and Barclays, according to documents obtained by The
Nation. Blackwater's work for corporations and government agencies
was contracted using two companies owned by Blackwater's owner and
founder, Erik Prince: Total Intelligence Solutions and the Terrorism
Research Center (TRC). Prince is listed as the chairman of both
companies in internal company documents, which show how the web of
companies functions as a highly coordinated operation."

A spokesperson for Monsanto, reached by
Scahill, first denied the relationship with Blackwater, but then
admitted that Monsanto had paid Total Intelligence for intelligence
reoprts "... about the activities of groups or individuals that
could pose a risk to company personnel or operations around the world
which were developed by monitoring local media reports and other
publicly available information. The subject matter ranged from
information regarding terrorist incidents in Asia or kidnappings in
Central America to scanning the content of activist blogs and
websites." The spokesperson told Scahill he was told Total
Intelligence was completely separate from Blackwater.

The news that Monsanto hired a
Blackwater company for intelligence reports is rocketing around the
world via anti-GMO activists. Blogger Rady
Ananda summed up the relationship between Monsanto and Blackwater
as "... A death-tech firm weds a hit squad."

Citing the growing movement to destroy
GMO crops, Ananda thought Monsanto was hoping to be able to quell
dissent through infiltrating actvist groups that take direct action.
Ananda concluded his article saying "... Monsanto, by hiring a
mercenary army and former CIA field agents, is deadly serious about
protecting its deadly products. Yet, this contract further discredits
the company. The public can now paint an even bleaker picture of the
firm that brought us Agent Orange, PCBs, rBST, DDT, aspartame and,
now, hitmen."

Writing on Above
Top Secret, Airspoon commented on Monsanto's hiring of
Blackwater, saying (sic) "The above quote is pretty scary and
indicative of how corporate interests are acting against our own,
though most of us already knew that. For any of the deniars who tried
to refute that such tactics were used, one need only look at the
plethora of information coming out about Xe and Blackwater due to the
scandal in Iraq.

I think that the best thing that could
be done, is to boycott these companies as much as possible. Monsanto
might be a little hard to boycott for some folks, though the other
companies shouldn't be. In fact, Monsanto shouldn't be either for
most folks.

Blackwater (Xe) is one of the most
dangerous entities facing the American people. It's like the
enforcement arm of corporate interests that does not have to operate
under the same "restrictions" that government enforcers
have to operate under under. It's like a private army for TPTB.

Americans and citizens of the world
should be irate ove the very existence of a company such as
Blackwater and we should all stand together against the Nazi-like
tactics and the anti-freedom angenda of such an evil organization."

The documents obtained by Scahill show
that Monsanto paid Blackwater's subsidiary, Total
Intelligence a total of $232,000 for intelligence services
provided in 2008 and 2009.

Aside from the brief statement provided
to Scahill, Monsanto is keeping quiet on the matter, as is Blackwater
and the other organizations cited in Scahill's article.

Scahill said the Canadian Military paid
Blackwater over $1.6 million for training, which was provided through
Blackwater's subsidiary, the Terrorism
Research Center.

Blackwater violated some US export
control laws, reported Yahoo
News this past August, violations which included the provision of
training to the Canadian Military.

AFP
reported Blackwater operatives were accused of killing 17 Iraqis,
wounding a further 22 in what was said to be an unprovoked attack in
2007. The company was later cleared of all wrongdoing. Blackwater was
ordered out of Iraq earlier this year because of that violent
incident said CBS
News.

Scahill is a Puffin Foundation Writing
Fellow at The Nation Institute. He recently wrote the book,
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.
Scahill is also an award-winning investigative journalist and in
addition to writing for The Nation, he is a correspondent with
Democracy Now!.

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